Your emotions play a bigger part in your health than you may realize. We have heard of the gut-brain relation and how your emotions influence your gut health. However, could your emotions also be ...

Can Emotions Make You Sick? Our thoughts shape our lives, but we often have no control over them. Let's find out what doctors have to say about this. What thoughts create illness? How Thoughts Affect ...

Alexithymia is when you have trouble identifying, understanding, or naming your emotions. The word comes from the Greek language and literally means "lacking words for feelings." It's not a mental ...

In her new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett makes a compelling case about the constructed theory of emotions. Unlike the classical theory ...

A collage of unconnected features of human faces, including a teary eyed face, smiling eyes, and a mouth with an ambiguous expression. In the middle of the collage ...

Have you noticed that you rarely think at your best when you get really upset? As I watched the Will Smith “slapping” incident at the Oscars earlier this year, I was reminded of how a simple comment ...

When toddlers melt down and teens snap back, it’s natural for us to have emotions. Some parents feel overwhelmed or out of control. Others try to push their emotions away. Emotions, after all, can be ...

Music is one of the most universal tools we have for expressing emotion, culture, and identity. People turn to it to learn, grow, and to feel. It’s no secret that music affects our mood. We listen to ...